Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes finally rolled their current tour into town on Pancake Day. Flippin’ great and all that. And there to celebrate their latest album, ‘Dark Rainbow’, with a broad range of their West Yorkshire fans, the band gave the crowd one hell of an extravagant performance.

Although I unfortunately didn’t get to see more than five minutes of Hot Wax’s opening set, there were two supporting acts on the road — the second being The Mysterines. Billing the Liverpudlian four-piece as main support was just as much of a treat as the headliner for me; I’ve witnessed their up-and-coming mastery twice before and met them in a sun-toasted Deer Shed Festival field the once as well.

The Mysterines’ first serving after a steady, building walk-on was unreleased ‘The Last Dance’, which certainly could’ve been their most exciting debuting of a new track to a Leeds crowd, yet they later shook us with ‘Stray’. What can I say? Banger alert. And it’s one we’ll have access to very soon because it’s dropping on 20th February.

The old faithful ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Hung Up’ were stark reminders of how ferocious their first album was. Yet throughout, they confidently managed to deliver goosebumps to the arms of the audience via ‘Begin Again’ and ‘All These Things’. Sultry, powerful vocals, thundering riffs, on-point drums, a totally shredded Telecaster… it’s hard to stop tallying up their brownie points.

By way of modern rock royalty, suited and booted, with a vampire-esque collared coat on Frank Carter himself, The Rattlesnakes hissed their way onto the stage majestically. There was a palpable swagger to the former Gallows frontman, yet a mayhem-raising energy to immense lead guitarist, Dean Richardson. Between them and with their peers, these guys put foot right song after song.

‘Can I Take You Home’, ‘Honey’, ‘Happier Days’, ‘Man Of The Hour’ (the latter of which was their finale) — yeah, they’d not struggled to weave these new beasts into their setlist of utterly bombastic, eardrum-bursting belters. The amps were high-voltage and even the subtlest of chord progressions came off as a meaty riff. And the inclusion of Dean’s gentle piano keys was tender and contrastive.

But what really retained everyone’s enthusiasm — and unstoppable moshing — was their deft intermingling of older offerings. That meant we got rippers such as ‘Crowbar’, ‘Kitty Sucker’, ‘Devil Inside Me’, ‘My Town’ and more; all were popular picks from across their back catalogue. They knew what fans came for yet they had a duty to tour the new record, so they’d created a setlist that entirely worked to that metric. Slick. And that’s what’ll have me returning again.